The Sociology of Mental Disorders, 3rd Edition

(Hardback, 3rd Revised edition)

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This revised edition presents a biosocial model for understanding mental disorders, which integrates recent sociological frameworks with current research in the epidemiology of mental disorders and on biological features of mental disorders. It shows the many ways in which macrosocial factors - such as stratification, integration and culture - and microsocial factors - such as self-concept formation, socialization and imitation - influence the distribution of mental disorders throughout the population, in combination with psychological and biological factors. The author adopts an epistemological point of view, comparing and contrasting various frameworks for comprehending bizarre forms of deviance that are labelled as mental disorders. He introduces new data and frameworks concerning the process of social stratification and mental disorders, the rapid dissemination of somatoform disorders, mental disorders in the modern world, and the "insane" society. Original data from classic research studies in the field are introduced and discussed to illustrate the application of frameworks to the problem of bizarre deviance. Carefully selected first-person accounts of the experience of bizarre deviance add poignancy to the presentation, along with examples of official diagnostic criteria.

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.,."a quality work that is filing a need."-The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
.,."this book will be a good choice for psychologists who teach upper level courses in abnormal psychology and who want to provide a text that provides a social view that complements, rather than contradists, a psychological viewpoint. It will be especially appropriate for psychologists who teach general courses about mental illness in professional programs in public health or medical schools. Eaton resolves the sociologist's dilemmas in ways that should please psychologists who want collaborative and not adversarial relationships with sociologists."-Contemporary Psychology
...a quality work that is filing a need.-The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
...this book will be a good choice for psychologists who teach upper level courses in abnormal psychology and who want to provide a text that provides a social view that complements, rather than contradists, a psychological viewpoint. It will be especially appropriate for psychologists who teach general courses about mental illness in professional programs in public health or medical schools. Eaton resolves the sociologist's dilemmas in ways that should please psychologists who want collaborative and not adversarial relationships with sociologists.-Contemporary Psychology
...a quality work that is filing a need.The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
..."a quality work that is filing a need."-The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
..."this book will be a good choice for psychologists who teach upper level courses in abnormal psychology and who want to provide a text that provides a social view that complements, rather than contradists, a psychological viewpoint. It will be especially appropriate for psychologists who teach general courses about mental illness in professional programs in public health or medical schools. Eaton resolves the sociologist's dilemmas in ways that should please psychologists who want collaborative and not adversarial relationships with sociologists."-Contemporary Psychology

Author Bio

WILLIAM W. EATON is Professor of Mental Hygiene in the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. He is also Director of the NIMH Training Program in Psychiatric Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to the first and second edition of The Sociology of Mental Disorders (1980 and 1985), he has authored numerous scientific articles and coedited three books.